Random thoughts over lunch

Just thinking...

If Changjin (haha.. i am a HUGE da changjin fan) is in boston at the medical school....

what will she be majoring in?

Hmm.. i mean she will do well in everything.... BUT... do you think she will be a

1) Neurobiologist
2) Molecular biologist
3) Cell biologist
4) Geneticist
5) System biologist
6) Biophysicist
7) Chemical biologist ??
OR... anything that i missed out...

Hmmm... there is no correct answer...

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I think she will start out as a geneticist who will turn into a system biologist as she grows old. Haha... reason being that she is extremely observant. Before taking genetics course, I thought that genetics should not be too hard. Just do a knock out in the mouse and look at the phenotype of the mouse. As I am being to realize, phenotyping is very challenging. There are many different mouse strains available and sometimes doing a knock out in one strain works but not the other. This means that the genetic backgound matters too.... a lot of inter-related genetic network and circuitry. Hence the phenotype varies a lot too and it is extremely hard to phenotype.

This is where I think Changjin comes in. Haha.. she is very observant so I dun think she will miss any important phenotype.

As for why she will becomes a system biologist in the end is because just looking at single genes for a very long time, she will realize that everything is extremely inter-linked and it is time to loook at the whole network. =P oh.. well.. i dunno if her programming is good but I think any code she writes will be very neat. (like a delicacy to be served on the table.) =P